LLVM 2.6 Release!

[Denis Koroskin]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:48:51 +0400, Justin Johansson <no at spam.com> wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>
>> Justin Johansson wrote:
>> > Looks like Christmas is arriving early this year folks ...
>> > just got this pressy from the LLVM team/Chris Lattner in my inbox.
>> >
>> > I'm sure a number of D people will be excited about this announcement.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Justin Johansson
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi LLVM Friends, Fans, Followers and Fanatics,
>> >
>> > LLVM 2.6 is live! You can download it here:
>> > http://llvm.org/releases/  and read about it here:
>> > http://llvm.org/releases/2.6/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
>>
>> This is awesome news, and I'm glad the the ldc people are keeping an eye
>> on D2.
>>
>> I wonder what's the status regarding exceptions on Windows or Windows
>> support in general. I couldn't find information through a summary search
>> through the release notes. My understanding is that currently there is
>> no release at all of ldc. Is that correct?
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Andrei,
>
> I cannot say just how exciting it was to first break this news on D NG.
>
> My thinking is along lines:
>
>   Scala is to JVM as
>   D *is to/should be to/should aspired to be to* LLVM.
>
> btw. What's the latest ETA for TDPL?
>
> Justin
>
>
>

Amazon mentions March 15, 2010:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321635361/modecdesi-20